Spicy Crab Recipe

Spicy crab recipe if you are looking for an alternative cooking preparation for crabs. It's spicy hot, appetizing, sweet and quite easy to make.

Ingredients:
Cleaned and cut crab
2 green chilli
1 curry leave stalk
1 teaspoon turmeric
3 tablespoons chilli powder
1 tablespoon ginger and garlic paste
9 tomatoes grated
1 tablespoon tamarind paste dissolved in water
Oil as required
Salt to taste

Directions:
Marinade washed crab meat with turmeric, chilli powder and ginger garlic paste
Heat some oil in a pot and fry crab till they turn pink, 15-20 minutes
Add chillis and curry leaves
Add onions and fry for a further 5 minutes, adding oil if required
Add tomatoes and allow to cook until the tomatoes are well cooked and a gravy chutney like is present
Finally add your tamarind paste allowing for a 2-5 minute cooking time
Lastly garnish with coriander,

Tempura Shrimp Recipe

Tempura Shrimp Recipe

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup cornstarch
4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons curry powder
12 ounces cold seltzer
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 to 3 liters canola oil (approximately, as needed for deep-frying)
Shrimp:
1 pound (21-30 count) shrimp, deveined and shells removed
Special equipment: Approximately 12 (8-inch) bamboo skewers

Directions
To make tempura, mix flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and curry powder in a bowl. Dredge the shrimp in this dry mix, shaking any excess back into the bowl, and add seltzer to the tempura in a stream while whisking constantly to make it into batter. Season with salt and pepper.
Heat canola oil to 375 degrees F in a deep-fryer, or according to the manufacturer's instructions for similar foods.
Thread the dusted shrimp onto skewers, approximately 4 to a skewer. Pour the tempura batter into a glass pie plate, dip each skewer of shrimp into the tempura batter, and add to the deep- fryer basket. Fry until golden brown. Drain on paper toweling and serve warm.